I just bought all the parts for my new comp and they should be arriving later today or early tomarrow and I was wondering how I would go about overclocking my CPU? I have never overclocked anything before so I have no idea how. I only want to OC it by 400MHz or so. It is running at 2.2GHz so that would mean OC it to about 2.6GHz. Here are the rest of my system specs:

ABIT AN8-ULTRA motherboard
Athlon 64 3700+ processor
XFX GeForce 7800GTX Factory Overclocked graphics card
OCZ Gold Series 1GB (2x512MB) 184-pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel

Don't rush into upgrading yet, run the system for a little while before you dabble into that. By the way you've got a heluva rig (3700+ coupled with the 7800GTX).

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It's the exact same machine I've got coming in a few days time aswell except I'm getting an Asus A8-N Deluxe and Corsair TwinX1024 PC4400 1 GB Kit memory and an overclocked Gainward Golden Sample 7800GTX (Core: 470MHz / Memory: 1300MHz).

I can't effing wait, both of our machines will be unholy.

Sabertooth's usual dangerous instinct of "devouring" clock speeds and performing all actions ferociously such as attacking wild deer, jumping gaping rivers and running DivX 5.0 at 100% (the whole sabertooth name thing, not you as a person, I don't know you for christ sake) has remained sensible about this one indeed. If you're bursting to get into some overclocking wait a week or two. Use the computer normally for the first week, 2nd week find some benchmarking programmes to stress the system within it's normal speeds then one should dabble lightly in said overclocking.

Don't destroy your system the minute you get it. You'll never forgive yourself. Although 3700's overclock really well....

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